How to think critically about what the media is telling you?

[Paul158]

On 10/26/2024 at 7:07 PM, Caveira said:

I mean their strategy this term is absolutely no policy and just that he’s hitler.   If the most liberal rags on the planet can’t endorse her something is wrong.  

That and the twinkle toes dude that’s supposed to get the Midwest manly male vote.  That’s another good idea lol.   Shotgun loading much and jazz hands…..  tends to work with bears and packers and Vikings fans lol.   

That one guy with the 50 alt handles on here must be crying in his parents basement right now.   
 

i expect better memes this time if kamamalalal the kackler loses.  

Thats one of my favorites from 2016. TDS explosion.

[ionel]

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363844350112

I'm convinced.  This must be true.  Just look at how she proves it with her hands.  I think she might've learned this at Boston U so ...

 

[Scouts Honor]

uniting with billionaires 

[mspart]

Real chummy looking.  Neither can stand each other.

mspart

[Scouts Honor]

There has been more outrage from the left and the media (but i repeat myself) about a joke told at Trump's rally,

 

 

 

then there was about a gun being fired at Trump's rally.

Edited October 28 by Scouts Honor

[Scouts Honor]

at least the NYT just came out and said it would not print anything harmful to hillary in 2016

[ionel]

I dont know where this fits and didn't want to start a tampon thread so:

Couric asked Walz about her husband being called "Tampon Tim," a nickname coined by conservatives after he signed a bill in his state that would put free menstrual products in all school restrooms, including boys' rooms.

"If kids are hungry in school, what that does to brain and learning, you're not going to learn to read," Walz said. "So if you're talking about learning to read and closing gaps then you better take away the barriers for that. If that's tampons, then that's tampons, right?"

Makes sense  and this might explain my struggles in English class.  

[Bigbrog]

11 hours ago, ionel said:

I dont know where this fits and didn't want to start a tampon thread so:

Couric asked Walz about her husband being called "Tampon Tim," a nickname coined by conservatives after he signed a bill in his state that would put free menstrual products in all school restrooms, including boys' rooms.

"If kids are hungry in school, what that does to brain and learning, you're not going to learn to read," Walz said. "So if you're talking about learning to read and closing gaps then you better take away the barriers for that. If that's tampons, then that's tampons, right?"

Makes sense  and this might explain my struggles in English class.  

The rest of her speech was just as head scratching...she went on about Kamala's hand gesture of turning the page for like 5 minutes...super cringy.

[jross]

Make it stop.  Context jackass!

 

[ionel]

17 minutes ago, jross said:

Make it stop.  Context jackass!

 

Lost me at CNN. 

[jross]

GLORIUS

Hugh Hewitt resigned from the Washington Post after he stormed off a livestreamed discussion on Friday amid a dispute with two of the newspaper’s liberal columnists that he called “the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of.”

Hewitt, a contributing columnist for the embattled Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet, appeared on a discussion with Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus previewing Tuesday’s election when the conversation turned to a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania, where a judge agreed to a request to extend in-person voting in Bucks County.

 

 

[jross]

When is the other half going to wake up?

 

 

[Paul158]

16 minutes ago, jross said:

When is the other half going to wake up?

 

 

Maybe as the border becomes more secure, the price of gas goes down and groceries become more affordable they will wake up. Maybe as the misery index goes down and consumer confidence goes up maybe they will wake up. One can hope.  

[mspart]

The Hugh Hewitt thing was quite remarkable.   Even after Bezos told his folks that they were not trusted, Hewitt tries to tow that line and is completely shot down.   Bezos should fire those two immediately. 

mspart

[ionel]

When there's at least one too many apostrophes:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/01/white-house-altered-biden-transcript-00186762

[mspart]

7 hours ago, jross said:

Make it stop.  Context jackass!

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-liz-cheney-might-not-be-such-a-war-hawk-if-she-had-rifles-shooting-at-her

At an event late Thursday in Arizona with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump was asked whether it was strange to see Cheney campaign against him. The former Wyoming congresswoman has vocally opposed Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris, joining the vice president at recent stops as they try to win over Republicans disaffected with Trump.

Trump called Cheney “a deranged person” and added, “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we’d be in 50 different countries.”

The former president continued: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.

“You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,” Trump said.

This is what he said.   He did not say she should die, be executed, or anything.   He just said if she is such a war hawk, she should go to a theater of war and see how she likes it.   Kudos to PBS for publishing the complete remarks. 

mspart

[Offthemat]

12 minutes ago, ionel said:

When there's at least one too many apostrophes:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/01/white-house-altered-biden-transcript-00186762

And now the Press Office is at odds with the Stenographer’s Office over a revealing over-reaction by Biden about a joke not told by Trump, which met widespread disapproval and boos from the rally goers. 

[ionel]

17 minutes ago, Offthemat said:

And now the Press Office is at odds with the Stenographer’s Office over a revealing over-reaction by Biden about a joke not told by Trump, which met widespread disapproval and boos from the rally goers. 

Exactly which fits the thread title of thinking critically ... or maybe ignore.   

[Saylors_Tiny_Willie]

6 hours ago, jross said:

GLORIUS

Hugh Hewitt resigned from the Washington Post after he stormed off a livestreamed discussion on Friday amid a dispute with two of the newspaper’s liberal columnists that he called “the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of.”

Hewitt, a contributing columnist for the embattled Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet, appeared on a discussion with Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus previewing Tuesday’s election when the conversation turned to a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania, where a judge agreed to a request to extend in-person voting in Bucks County.

 

 

Quoting an account named "End Wokeness".

You really are a piece of work.

[mspart]

1 minute ago, Saylors_Tiny_Willie said:

Quoting an account named "End Wokeness".

You really are a piece of work.

You can watch the video which shows exactly what End Wokeness said.   Again shooting the messenger so you don't have to listen to the truth of the matter.  You really are a piece of work.

mspart

[Caveira]

18 minutes ago, Saylors_Tiny_Willie said:

Quoting an account named "End Wokeness".

You really are a piece of work.

Now you can’t look at a tweet lol.     Wbo is your main.   How was your week long ban ?

[jross]

He can’t listen to an unedited recording.

He can only attack the messenger, to feel better about his views… the views the media tells him to have.

There are too many people unwilling to think independently.

[ionel]

Will any journalist ask Harris for specifics on which corporation(s) she will target for price gouging and specifically how she will define it and stop it?  They just asked here how her faith would guide her so a policy question seems fair don't you think?  

[Saylors_Tiny_Willie]

58 minutes ago, jross said:

He can’t listen to an unedited recording.

He can only attack the messenger, to feel better about his views… the views the media tells him to have.

There are too many people unwilling to think independently.

Because you repost shitty 'evidence', I'm not thinking independently... lol

Be better.

[WrestlingRasta]

2 hours ago, jross said:

There are too many people unwilling to think independently. 

Way too many. It takes effort, challenging yourself, and a willingness to intently get uncomfortable.